R. L. Solberg

On The Serenity Prayer

We have a “wildcard” lesson built into our teaching rotation at my Celebrate Recovery meeting where we focus on the Serenity Prayer rather than one of the steps of recovery. This time around that wildcard lesson was assigned to me and as I dove into the prayer I started getting a little intimidated. There is […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years ago

Culture Politics

Happy Independence Day

The Prayer in the First Congress Given by Reverend Jacob Duché, Rector of Christ Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1774, 9 o’clock a.m. “O Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years ago

Culture Philosophy Politics

Please Help With My Racism

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil — black gold! — ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 6, 2020

Culture Politics

An Open Look at Banning Guns

I’m not just a gun owner, I’m a firearms enthusiast and an NRA member, and I’m willing to have an open discussion about gun ownership in the US. I am so sick of these mass killings. On the major news websites and TV shows, as well as my social media feeds, there’s a loud cry […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoJune 17, 2022

Creativity Music & Art Personal

The Year in Between

What happened between the making of these two videos? A little over a year ago I was hired as a UX Designer by a healthcare company that had just merged with another company. They were having a big “Are You Ready?” promotional campaign for the unveiling of the new company name and held a contest […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal

The Dawning of a Power Outage

In modern society, the use of electricity has so permeated our everyday existence that we have no paradigm for life without it. To wit, my fatuous thought process the last time we experienced a power outage due to a storm. I was watching TV when suddenly the world around me was plunged into darkness and […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Philosophy Recovery

On Relapse

Today we’re going to tackle Principle 7, which says: Principle 7: Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will. Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years ago

Creativity Music & Art

Heart In A Cage

My wife Deb and I had (or maybe still have) a little band called Dust & Daisies. We’ve done a lot of different things, and played a lot of different places, and we’re kind of on hiatus right now. This is one of my favorite songs of ours. Heart In A Cage You’ve got my […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years ago

Faith Philosophy Recovery

On Amends

This lessons covers Principe 6 (of the 8 Principles) and Step 8 (of the 12 Steps), which are: Principle 6: Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others. “Happy are the merciful” and “Happy […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years agoOctober 6, 2020

Culture Philosophy

Piano Tuning & Descartes

Last summer we got a free upright piano. Even though it was a somewhat beat-up middle-of-the-road piano from 1987, I was pretty excited because it’s the first piano I’ve ever owned. We had to move it ourselves and, fortunately, we had some friends who were willing to help us out. As you might imagine, the […]

R. L. Solberg 6 years ago